Taking control in PVCS Dimensions

As a way of introducing Dimensions, we'll go through a typical work-session using it.

At this point your source code is now in XML the format that the UD6/CMtool Driver uses (in the directory c:\usys-ud6102\projects\sources), and is ready for ‘putting into’ Dimensions. The following describes a Dimensions setup which is a fairly straightforward one and should suffice for your initial evaluation, or to give more advanced Dimensions users an insight into the specifics of using PVCS Dimensions with the UD6/CMtool Driver for Uniface.

Installing and setting up Dimensions.

• Install the Dimensions and Oracle server and client software (all of the commands shown here are executed from the client). If it is your first experience setting up Dimensions, we recommend using the default installation procedure, including using a new Oracle installation and database.

Migration tasks to be performed.

• Create a Dimensions product using the process modeller.
  
  
• Define File Formats and MIME types using the process modeller.
  
  
• Define Object Type Definitions using the process modeller.
  
  
• Create a workset for the product. All Uniface source code in our example will be assigned to the item type (Object Type definitions) SRC.
  
  
• If you are performing these actions on a Windows NT server which has a PVCS Dimensions server running on it, but you wish to load the sources onto a different Dimensions server Set the MCX_SLAVE environment variable to "mcxrelay.exe"
  
  
• Configure MULTIUSE for specifying the location of Reference areas, Sandboxes and developer INUSE files.
  
  
• Upload the sources to Dimensions using the Data Migration Utility.
  
  
• Create baseline using the PC Client Utility.